This medication is used alone or with other medications to treat high pressure inside the eye due to glaucoma or other eye diseases. Lowering high pressure inside the eye helps to prevent blindness, vision loss, and nerve damage. This medication may also be used during certain eye surgeries and to reverse the effects of drugs used to enlarge the pupil. Pilocarpine works by causing the pupil of the eye to shrink and decreasing the amount of fluid within the eye.

Pilocarpine affects the nervous system and also increases saliva secretion in the mouth. Pilocarpine is used to treat dry mouth caused by Sjogren's syndrome or by radiation to treat head and neck cancer.

Pilocarpine is a medication used to reduce pressure inside the eye and treat dry mouth. As eye drops it is used to manage angle closure glaucoma until surgery can be performed, ocular hypertension, primary open angle glaucoma, and to bring about constriction of the pupil following its dilation.

• sweating
• nausea
• runny nose
• diarrhea
• chills
• flushing
• frequent urination
• dizziness
• weakness
• headache
• vomiting
• heartburn
• stomach pain
• swelling of the arms, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs

Abdominal pain, visual disturbances, darrhoea, chills, nervousness, tremor, stuffy nose, flushing, dizziness, hypotension and irregular heartbeats.

After you apply Pilocarpine, your vision may become temporarily blurred or unstable. Vision in dim light may be affected. Do not drive (especially at night), use machinery, or do any activity that requires clear vision until you are sure you can perform such activities safely. Limit alcoholic beverages.